C.S Lewis

TOPIC: How did C.S Lewis' open religous beliefs affect his writing and the world around him in the secular age.
Into the wardrobe- Christian Reflections and Other Essays

1. Believes God is outside of creation but in relation to creation.
2. He asked what is Christian literature and argued that Christian literature should be written the same way as other literature.
3. Believed culture is a reflection of christian values although not exactly the same as the christian virtues.
4. Does not believe evolution means improvement but rather degeneration.
5. Lewis doesnt believe that we should stick strictly to cristian ways or abondon them all together instead he believes that we there everybody should stay with their own laws and not hove others laws forced upon them.
6. Lewis discusses the displeasure of the people when they realize they will never attain peace after WWI.
7. He believe the popularized philosophy of evolution is a myth.
8. He destroys the theory that man will eventually become demigod
9. He believes the theory of evolution in the way that it changes creatures but he thinks the myth is that it improves creatures.
10. He denounces historicists as people with no experience in the actual study of history but are theoligists and philosophers which claim that only evidence that support their case survives through history.
11. He thinks that the cry from the people to God for justice and forgiveness are dying in modern society
12. Lewis does not understand the purpose for petitionary prayer
13. He believes that those who undermine the old orthodoxy are the divenes engaged in the new testament critisim.
14. He objects how people can recontruct the bible to fit their own needs and change the setting
15. He believes humanity is trying to cross a bridge thats we havent approached yet and before the know that thers something that needs bridging.
16. He thinks that if God exists he is related more like an author to a play and not an object in this universe to another.
17. He believes that people speak in ordinary, scientific, poetic, and religous language
18. Thinks we use metaphoical language to express concrete ideas
19. Believes that the Christian view of literature must be the attitude of exellence
20. He dislikes church music because he thinks that this type of music should be sung out of the church

Visser, John. Into the Wardrobe. December 3rd 2010. December 3rd 2010 http://cslewis.drzeus.net/.

The high road to Narnia: C. S. Lewis and his friend J. R. R. Tolkien believed that truths are universal and that stories reveal them.

1. Wrote theology read by many theology readers
2. Was a religous apologist.
3. Wrote with anger because he believed that civilazation had been betrayed by the intellagensia of his age
4. Freud dismissed all forms of spirituality as sexual repression the same kind of views that cs lewis was fighting
5. Thought that the Narnia books were unoriginal because thats how he intended them to be based somewhat on religion
6. Insisted on god given morality
7. Was fighting against literary modernism as well because he believed the ancients got literature right
8. Released 3 lecture collectivley known as the " Abolition of Man" that are still regarded as the most eloquent attack on reductive theorizing
9. Also was author of the Scewtape Letters
10. Thought moral life should have axioms or things that should not need any proof
11. Believed no morality on earth is independent
12. Said that there was only one civilization in recorded history which is the humans
13. Didnt believe that a comment could just come out of personal preference
14. Belived teachers de educated students about our roots and religion
15. Thought that originality was the most overrated of the virtues
16. Believed that man had gone though internalizaiton
17. Thought that modern man has been reduced to a mere state of mind
18. Believed man needed to revive the respect for intuition and the axiomatic
19. Belived that there are some things that man will always believe will stay the same
20. Believed that his world was filled with skeptics who need justification of other peoples views

Watson, George. "The high road to Narnia: C. S. Lewis and his friend J. R. R. Tolkien believed that truths are universal and that stories reveal them." American Scholar 78.1 (2009): 89+. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 7 Dec. 2010. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/CriticalEssayDetailsPage/CriticalEssayDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Critical-Essay&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CA192052999&mode=view&userGroupName=fcpsbhs&jsid=d9eda3fdebd531364c5c2a7a4cf50bff

Lewis's Screwtape Letters: the Ascetic Devil and the Aesthetic God

1. Believed good and evil were not just ethical domains but also aesthetic
2. When writing the screwtape letters he was more easily aquainted with humanity and evil
3. In hell he portrayed fallen angels as angels who were weak wounded and vulnerable and not overwhelming
4. Believed that other writers have miscast devils as strong, ruthless beings and that they have beem blown out of proporion
5. Lewis reaction to the scretape letters was revulsion because he had to take all feelings of happiness out of the book
6. Lewis felt evil is everything but liberating
7. Screwtape letters is about the character screwtape and how he tries to win a battle against god
8. Clarified that good and evil are not complete opposites because god has no parallel because the opposite are the angels because the devil is a fallen angel
9. Wrote that the devil cannot solve the mystery of gods motive for creating the humans because there is no mystery just a reality screwtape cant comprehend
10. Screwtape is unable to comprehend loving beings seperate from themselves
11. Believes that the devil is unable to comprehend doing anything is it doesnt seem to have any real benefit
12. Thinks that if anyone in hell could truly come to understand the concept of love the war will be over and theyll return to heaven
13. Screwtape the main evil chatacter is satans son
14. Screwtape is unaware of gods true goal but still believes the war is his to win
15. Screwtape letters is a book about screwtape satans son teaching his apprentice wormwood while battling god
16. Screwtape letters was an immensly popular book
17. From the devils perspective god has a love to free to be intelligible
18. The devils most power lies in his lies and falsehoods
19. Says the devil would lose power if his reality was denied
20. The thought of countering god irritates the devil and fallen angels

Harwood, Larry D. "Lewis's Screwtape Letters: the Ascetic Devil and the Aesthetic God." Gale Student Resources in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 7 Dec. 2010 http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/CriticalEssayDetailsPage/CriticalEssayDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Critical-Essay&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ2181700916&mode=view&userGroupName=fcpsbhs&jsid=9a416b65a8a5f6b26d76fcbe8b990572
Sixty years of Mere Christianity

1. C.S. Lewis delivered his first lecture in a series that would be published as mere christianity in 1943
2. Mere chrisianity is praised as a good converion tool to make other people christian
3. Some belive mere christianity doesnt have a strong response to atheists
4. Includes arguement on why jesus is the son of god
5. Lewis wrote to a wide audience so more people could convert to chrisianity
6. Beleived god is the only way humans could have gained knowledge of morality
7. Lewis opposed the aethist views of those such as Bertrand Russel
8. Has less philisophical rigor than his other work
9. Believed that if god created the universe he wouldnt leave evidence
10. States that jesus is the real thing
11. Proves to much by using an arguement that proves other religions
12. Was one of the most famous christian apolists of all time
13. Was a sicere follower of his religion
14. Was not considered to be narrow minded
15. Consisted of how good christians should act
16. Believed that if a mortal man was saying the things jesus was saying he not be a good moral teacher like people think he is
17. Said that the only way he expects god to show himself is in us
18. Believe that Jesus with his abilities was the Son of God madman of devil
19. Mere christianity is a group of seperate lectures later combined into one book
20. Believes cs lewis is an impressive intellectual and critic

Patrick, Jeremy. "Sixty years of Mere Christianity." Free Inquiry Feb.-Mar. 2004: 46+. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 7 Dec. 2010. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/CriticalEssayDetailsPage/CriticalEssayDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Critical-Essay&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CA112798707&mode=view&userGroupName=fcpsbhs&jsid=a45f735fda7733a22eda91f41f17d120